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Upcoming EventsThe neural substrates of anxious temperament in non-human primates, Aug 23http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110242&date=2017-08-23
An extremely anxious temperament early in life is a risk factor for the later development of anxiety, depressive, and substance abuse disorders. Children with an extremely anxious temperament (AT), react to novelty with increased behavioral inhibition and increased levels of physiological arousal. Using a well-validated non-human primate model of AT, our group has been investigating the neurobiology of this early-life risk. In a series of experiments combining behavioral, brain imaging, molecular, and viral vector techniques we have identified specific neuroplasticity-related processes in the extended amygdala as critical contributors to AT. More generally, I will discuss how this translational neuroscience approach can help bridge the gap between psychological and molecular processes.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110242&date=2017-08-23The Psychology of Brokerage, Aug 30http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110243&date=2017-08-30
Third parties often shape dyadic interactions and relationships. Building on interdependence theory as an organizing conceptual framework, the current research explores when, why, and how third parties intervene in others' interactions, and illuminates previously unidentified similarities and differences between distinct types of third party influence.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110243&date=2017-08-30The Vicarious Construal Effect, Sep 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110244&date=2017-09-06
That two individuals can be exposed to the same stimulus and experience it differently speaks to the power of construal. People’s construals are shaped by their idiosyncratic attitudes, belief systems, and personal histories. As a result, simple delights for children often become uninspiring bores for adults. In this talk, I consider whether people can actively try on construals and experience stimuli as if through others’ eyes, what I call the vicarious construal effect. Although previous research has demonstrated that people can have empathic responses—catching the emotions that someone else is experiencing (e.g. mimicking a smile) or experiencing a stimulus one knows another is being exposed to (e.g., wincing as one watches someone be physically victimized)—I consider whether people’s own experience of a stimulus changes as they consider how someone else would see the same stimulus. In so doing, I demonstrate how people can both recover seemingly lost construals (e.g., by stalling or reversing habituation) and adopt foreign construals they would not have ordinarily appreciated. Furthermore, given people’s blindness to the power of construal in defining their experiences, participants exposed to such interventions believed they had learned something new about their underlying preferences (“I never realized how much I enjoy anime films!”), not something about the power of the manipulations. The research helps explain why social experiences often differ from solo ones, illustrates a technique that can be used to breathe new life into old experience, and demonstrates how people can seemingly learn about themselves by trying to understand others.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110244&date=2017-09-06Cognitive Neuroscience/Neurobiology Colloquium, Sep 7http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111005&date=2017-09-07
"Dynamics of Prefrontal Computations During Decision-Making"http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111005&date=2017-09-07Moving towards a more cumulative research practice in developmental psychology, Sep 11http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110847&date=2017-09-11
In recent years, many psychologists have become increasingly concerned about issues of reproducibility and replicability. From small sample sizes to post-hoc analytic flexibility ("p-hacking"), many factors conspire to decrease the robustness and trustworthiness of results in published research. These problems are important in developmental psychology as well, though the scope of the problem is unknown. I'll present some scientific and meta-scientific work I've done on these issues (including progress on the ManyBabies project, a large collaborative replication project in the infancy field) and describe some practical steps to take for increasing the robustness of your own work.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110847&date=2017-09-11Clinical Science Psychology Students 3rd Yr Talk, Sep 12http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111353&date=2017-09-12
Allison Diamond<br />
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Title: "Tell me how will you’ll really feel: An idiographic approach to future affect predictions in dysphoric and healthy individuals"<br />
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Alice Hua<br />
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Title: A new window into caregiver health: Using the patient brain as a predictorhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111353&date=2017-09-12Where Compassion Meets Social Justice, Sep 12http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111040&date=2017-09-12
Schools have become increasingly involved in cultivating students' capacities for reasoning about equity and justice as well as demonstrating compassion and care. Three distinguished panelists actively engaged in relevant pedagogical approaches will help us think about what works and why.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111040&date=2017-09-12Where Compassion Meets Social Justice, Sep 12http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111175&date=2017-09-12
Schools have become increasingly involved in cultivating students' capacities for reasoning about equity and justice as well as demonstrating compassion and care. Three distinguished panelists actively engaged in relevant pedagogical approaches will help us think about what works and why.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111175&date=2017-09-12Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities, Sep 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110245&date=2017-09-13
Does seeding online communities with baseline information spur contributor activity and follow-on knowledge production? I shed light on this question by examining data from OpenStreetMap, a Wikipedia-style, digital map-making community that was seeded by the US Census TIGER map at its inception. I estimate the causal effects of information seeding on OpenStreetMap by leveraging a novel dataset of over 350 million contributions made by about 577,000 contributors and a natural experiment, where an oversight caused only about 60% of the counties in the US to be seeded with a complete version of the TIGER map. Rather than increasing follow-on contributions, I find that information seeding significantly lowered follow-on knowledge production and contributor activity on OpenStreetMap. Further, counties that benefited from a higher level of information seeding demonstrated lower levels of quality in the long run, despite their early advantage in this regard. I argue and find empirical support for the mechanism that the TIGER basemap crowds-out contributors’ ability to develop ownership over baseline knowledge and disincentivizes follow-on contributions, which could explain why information seeding stifles rather than spurs knowledge production in online communities.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110245&date=2017-09-13Cognitive Neuroscience/Neurobiology Colloquium, Sep 14http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111582&date=2017-09-14
Recent years have seen dramatic advancement in the measurement of biology at a systems level. Researchers routinely obtain thousands or millions of simultaneous measures of dynamic systems. In humans, this includes neuroimaging, which can be used to probe the brain bases of affect and emotion in increasingly sophisticated ways. Neuroimaging can provide measures of activity in 300,000 brain locations and 60 billion functional associations every second. However, the complexity of these measures presents new challenges in maintaining scientific transparency and reproducibility. In this talk, I describe several new models of the brain bases of affective processes, including models that predict the intensity of negative affect, autonomic responses, prosocial emotions, and pain. These models reduce complex neuroimaging data to measures that can be readily replicated and generalized across laboratories. They can be tested prospectively on new participants, providing unbiased estimates of effect size that are often dramatically larger than single regions from standard brain maps. By asking which stimuli and psychological states these measures respond to across studies, we can induce the nature of their associated psychological constructs, providing a foundation for understanding how affect and emotion are generated in the brain.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111582&date=2017-09-14Clinical Science Psychology Students 3rd Yr Talk, Sep 19http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111572&date=2017-09-19
Caitlin Gasperetti<br />
Talk: Characterizing Sleep in Evening-Type Adolescents <br />
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Niki Gumport<br />
Talk: Patient Learning of Treatment Contents in Cognitive Therapy <br />
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Enitan Marcelle<br />
Talk: Prenatal Predictors of Working Memory Functioning in ADHDhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111572&date=2017-09-19Inspiration in the writer-reader encounter, Sep 20http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110246&date=2017-09-20
Inspiration is a motivational state in which an individual feels compelled to transmit, actualize, or express ideas. In this colloquium I present a series of studies of the role of inspiration in the writer-reader encounter. Key findings include the following: (a) Writer inspiration predicts the creativity of the resulting text, whereas writer effort tends to be a poor predictor. (b) Inspiration mediates transmission of creative ideas from their source (e.g., imagination) to their realization as concrete texts. (c) Inspired writers tend to be inspiring to readers due to the insightfulness and pleasantness of their texts. (d) Readers high in openness to experience are prone to writer-reader inspiration contagion, because these readers are tolerant of the originality and sublimity of inspired writing. (e) Readers tend to be inspired by texts written by writers whose personalities resemble their own. Discussion focuses on the inspiration versus perspiration debate, the centrality of the person-text encounter to existential well-being, and the role of openness and inspiration in the transmission and evolution of culture.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110246&date=2017-09-20Remembering in the Toddler Years, Sep 25http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111872&date=2017-09-25
The ability to subjectively re-experience our past requires processes that develop substantially during the course of childhood. Children ought to be able form, retain and retrieve detailed memory representations. In addition, they ought to be able to reflect on the quality of these memory representations (e.g., whether they are certain versus uncertain; whether the memories include vivid detail) to make appropriate decisions. Although these processes have been characterized in childhood, their examination at the transition from infancy to childhood lags behind, resulting in disconnection between the infancy and childhood literatures. I will review a first set of studies that bridge these two literature in an attempt to build a comprehensive account of memory development.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111872&date=2017-09-25Faculty Research Lecture, Sep 27http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111866&date=2017-09-27
Abstract: Computational modelling allows us to move beyond simple approaches to experimental design. Here, I will present two very different examples of integrating computational modelling into human affective neuroscience. In the first example, we sought to better characterize the mechanisms underlying intolerance of uncertainty in anxiety. Participants performed bandit style decision-making tasks, both inside and outside of the MRI scanner. Using a computational approach enables us to model the influence of different types of uncertainty – including risk, volatility and ambiguity – upon participants’ choice behaviors and to determine which parameters differentially influence behavior and brain function in high versus low anxious individuals. In the second example, we used multi-feature regression models to explore the cortical representation of emotional natural images. By fitting alternate models to cortical BOLD time-courses measured while participants view these images, we can examine which regions of cortex represent semantic versus structural image features. Further, we can effectively model tuning curves across cortex, identifying the image features that drive the BOLD signal in any given voxel. This in turn can be used to test theoretical models - such as whether facial emotion and identity are processed by independent cortical pathways. <br />
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Reception: To follow the talk, in the Beach Room 3105 Tolman.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111866&date=2017-09-27Nature and nurture in neurocognitive development: insights from studies of plasticity in blindness, Sep 28http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111861&date=2017-09-28
The human cortex consists of distinct networks that support cognitive functions such as language processing, face perception, and motor control. How do intrinsic physiology and experience determine this specialization? Studies of sensory loss provide unique insights into this question. In individuals who are blind from birth so called “visual” cortices acquire responses to sound and touch. Traditionally, these cross-modal responses were assumed to reflect processes analogous to vision (e.g. discrimination of tactile patterns and localization of sound). Contrary to this idea, I will present evidence that visual cortices of those who are blind from birth take on higher-cognitive functions, including language and numerical processing. This reorganization occurs during childhood and appears to follow a critical period. Resting state data suggest that plasticity is enabled in part by front-parietal connectivity with occipital cortices. Evidence from blindness supports the view that human cortices are highly functionally flexible during development and early experience plays a key role in determining function.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111861&date=2017-09-28Cognitive Neuroscience/Neurobiology Colloquium, Sep 28http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111897&date=2017-09-28
Nature and nurture in neurocognitive development: Insights from studies of plasticity in blindness.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111897&date=2017-09-28Executive Functioning in Children and Their Caregivers: Implications for Adaptation and Resilience, Oct 2http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112040&date=2017-10-02
Children who know how to control their impulses, ignore distracting stimuli, manipulate information in the mind, and shift between competing rules tend to thrive in life. Professor Obradović will discuss how good self-regulation skills help children succeed in the school context and review her new research linking executive functioning, stress physiology, and parenting practices. She will also present a novel assessment approach for studying children’s executive functioning skills at scale.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112040&date=2017-10-02Clinical Science Psychology Students 3rd Yr Talk, Oct 3http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111879&date=2017-10-03
Ben Swerdlow<br />
Talk Title: Toxic Side Effects of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation?: Focus on Shame <br />
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Jennifer Pearlstein<br />
Talk Title: Mechanisms of Impulsive Reactions to Emotion: How Stress Impacts the Ability to Override Emotional Impulses http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111879&date=2017-10-03The Self in Social Inference, Oct 4http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110247&date=2017-10-04
The ability to intuit what other people are thinking and feeling with some degree of accuracy is essential for effective communication and social coordination, making it important to understand both the factors that give rise to and the consequences that follow from perspective taking. In this talk, I’ll provide an overview of a program of research that examines the role of the self as an informational base in reasoning about other people’s mental states. I’ll describe some work that identifies a perceiver-based factor—incidental experiences of anxiety—that can shape people’s reliance on their own visuospatial perspective and self-knowledge when making inferences about what others see and know. I’ll also describe some work that explores how people’s active efforts to consider others' perspectives affect the extent to which they use their own likes and dislikes to guide their inferences about others’ preferences.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110247&date=2017-10-04Cognitive Neuroscience/Neurobiology Colloquium, Oct 5http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112260&date=2017-10-05
Data slam from grads in Cognitive Neuroscience/Neuroscience. Grad lounge afterwards for pingpong/foosball plus drinks and pizza.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112260&date=2017-10-05Understanding Probability, Oct 9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112044&date=2017-10-09
What is the mental representation of probability and how does it develop? What role do education and experience play in understanding probability? In this talk I will present the results of 4 Experiments investigating probability judgments in children and adults. In the first part of the discussion I will present data from adult participants performing a ratio comparison task as well as a psycho-physical model designed to account for the role of non-numerical features in ratio representations. Findings revealed that people represent the probability of binary outcomes as proportions calculated over Approximate Number System representations. In the second portion of the talk I will discuss the developmental trajectory of these computational abilities in children and young teens. Data from 6- to 12-year-old children suggest that by the age of 7-8 years of age, children can accurately represent probabilities based on proportions and that the accuracy of probability judgments improves to match adult levels around the age of 12. Interestingly, this is around the same age that children are formally introduced to probability based on the Common Core State Standards. Finally, in the third section of the talk I will discuss the interacting roles of individual experience and culture on learning probability. Preliminary findings from 2 ongoing experiments reveal that children use heuristic rules to make binary probability judgments and that these rules can be overridden with an adequate amount and type of feedback. Together, these findings shed light on how the mind represents probability and how this representation is influenced by experience and culture.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112044&date=2017-10-09How social and personality psychologists can be assets to assessment and selection teams at Google, Oct 11http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110248&date=2017-10-11
Drs. Maria Arboleda (Scaled Assessments Manager - Hiring Innovation) and Dana Landis (Head of Leadership Assessment and Effectiveness) will address a series of applied methods, training, and career focused questions crowd-sourced from Social-Personality Area graduate students.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110248&date=2017-10-11The Harm in Harmony, Oct 18http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111909&date=2017-10-18
A prominent theme in East-West cultural comparisons is that East Asian social interactions are characterized by harmony. But is this merely the surface? We propose that Easterners compete with ingroup members but tend to do so covertly to avoid risking relationships. Further we propose that, under many conditions, they suspect their peers are up to the same. We investigated this underside of Eastern harmony in five studies using self-report scales, scenarios, and storytelling. Results showed that compared to Westerners, Easterners are more likely to endorse covert tactics in competition situations (Study 1 & 2) and to expect tactics that are covert, and incidentally less ethical and more involving of relationships (Study 3). Easterners’ greater suspicion extends even to overtly friendly peers so long as the context is one that structurally incentivizes competition (Study 4) as opposed to cooperation (Study 5). These group differences in covert competition and ingroup suspicion were largely mediated by perceived relational mobility. We discuss implications for models of cultural differences in social relations, models of conflict resolution strategies (and of culture therein), as well as more general theories of interdependence.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111909&date=2017-10-18Self-Interest versus Other-Focus, Oct 18http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110249&date=2017-10-18
Relationships underscore every aspect of our lives, influencing the health and well-being of individuals, groups and organizations. One of the fundamental challenges in interpersonal relationships is balancing self-interest with the needs of another person. In this talk, I draw upon social, personality, and health psychology to investigate the factors that shape this self-other tradeoff with the ultimate aim of of identifying effective ways to help people create relationships that are assets rather than impairments. In particular, I discuss research on the benefits of perspective taking, gratitude, and awe for dealing with conflict and creating more cooperative relationships as well as the social costs of sleeping poorly.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110249&date=2017-10-18Faculty Research Lecture, Oct 18http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112472&date=2017-10-18
Abstract: My talk will begin with an important but potentially unpleasant comment on correlational research: That decades of work generalizing analyses to the experience or behavior of individuals may be fundamentally flawed. I will support this assertion with data taken from several studies from the U.S. and the Netherlands that demonstrate that the variance-covariance in individuals does not map onto to the corresponding variance-covariance of groups. Having established our motivation for pursuing idiographic research, I will present results from recent work in my lab on person-specific models for assessing psychopathology and designing personalized modular therapies for anxiety and depression. Finally, I will discuss new directions in our lab, focused on modeling the individual predictors of craving and consumption in cigarette smoking and alcohol use.<br />
Reception: To follow the talk, in the Beach Room 3105 Tolman.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112472&date=2017-10-18Cognitive Neuroscience/Neurobiology Colloquium, Oct 19http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112637&date=2017-10-19
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112637&date=2017-10-19Inflammation is a hot mess: Linking early environments with physical and mental health, Oct 23http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112046&date=2017-10-23
Global disease burden in recent years has shifted from premature death to years lived with disability. Non-communicable, chronic diseases are more responsible for these years lost and cost of health care treatment than any other type of illness or disease. Many of these chronic diseases, such as heart disease, obesity, and depression, have links with chronic inflammation. However, the psychosocial factors related to this process are understudied, even though we know that inflammation responds to psychological as well as physical stress.<br />
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In this talk, I propose that it is especially important to examine these processes during sensitive periods of brain development, such as adrenarche, gonadarche, and infancy. I present multifaceted data showing associations between inflammation, depression, brain activity, and obesity during childhood and adolescence, as well as lay out evidence suggesting that the family environment is implicated in these associations. Furthermore, I discuss how, although these processes are complicated and messy, identification of modifiable risk factors during development could be targeted for scalable interventions and prevention of chronic diseases.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112046&date=2017-10-23BPG Psych Professor Panel, Oct 23http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112195&date=2017-10-23
BPG(Berkeley psychology group) is a non-profit, academic-focused student organization dedicated to promote mental health awareness and provide educational resource. We will be hosting a psychology professor panel about the decision-making of young adults. Professor Serena Chen, Aaron Fisher, Stephen Hinshaw and Ozlem Ayduk will be sharing their research insights and discuss important issues within and beyond academic topics like identity, relationships and self actualization.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112195&date=2017-10-23Developing a Life History Theory of Mind: Awareness that the Mind Learns from the Past to Imagine the Future, Oct 30http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112406&date=2017-10-30
Professor Lagattuta will provide an overview of her research on 4- to 10-year-olds' and adults’ beliefs about whether people generalize from their past social interactions when engaging in episodic future thinking; that is, their awareness that people’s minds draw from prior experiences when imagining what will happen next. Across multiple studies, results reveal significant age-related increases in expecting people’s future-oriented thoughts, emotions, and decisions to be biased by preceding life events, with 8- to 10-year-olds and adults presuming broader future generalizations compared to younger children. Professor Lagattuta will further discuss sources of individual differences, including using eye-tracking to examine variability in how children and adults weight different types of past event information.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112406&date=2017-10-30The Art of Emotions/Emotions in Art: From the Pixar Film to the Empathetic Museum, Oct 30http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111814&date=2017-10-30
In this talk I will chart the journey that the science of emotion has led me on in collaborations on Pixar's film Inside/Out, Emoji at Facebook, and building emotion into museums on our on line life. <br />
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This talk coincides with the Science at Cal weekend, including the Vision + LIght exhibition (Oct 27 & 28), and the 2017 World Conference of Science Journalists taking place in the Bay Area and Berkeley (Oct 26-30). <br />
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Dacher Keltner is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as Co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center. He is the co-author of two textbooks, as well as the best-selling Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, and The Compassionate Instinct. He has published over 190 scientific articles, received numerous national prizes and grants for his research, and has written for multiple publications, including The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. In addition, he was a scientific consultant on Pixar’s film, Inside Out. <br />
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Participating Units: Arts + Design Initiative, Science at Calhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=111814&date=2017-10-30Climate change advocacy and ad hominem attacks, Nov 1http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110250&date=2017-11-01
Debates about climate change often involve ad hominem attacks. Each side is accused of insincerity, of merely serving special interests. In particular, those who advocate policies to promote energy conservation or otherwise reduce CO2 emissions can be challenged if their personal energy use appears to be high. Our studies indicate that an attack based on high personal carbon footprint can be extremely damaging. In our first two surveys, participants read vignettes in which a climate researcher advocates personal energy conservation. Participants were randomly assigned to different vignettes, in which the researcher’s own behavior either matched his message or fell short (in various ways). Falling short vastly reduces the researcher’s rated credibility; moreover, these survey participants report much weaker intentions to conserve energy. However, if the vignette indicated a favorable change in researcher behavior, credibility was restored and participants’ intentions strengthened. In a third survey we focused on climate policies aimed to reduce CO2 emissions rather than on voluntary conservation. Again, the researcher’s credibility is reduced, along with support for the policy he advocates, when his personal behavior does not match the energy conservation message. While participants’ beliefs about climate change and their political orientation also strongly affect ratings of researcher credibility, intentions to conserve energy, and support for policies to reduce CO2 emissions, the ad hominem effect of the researcher’s personal behavior remains strong for all participant subgroups. Those who advocate change need to prepare for ad hominem attacks by examining and changing their own behavior.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110250&date=2017-11-01Cognitive Neuroscience/Neurobiology Colloquium, Nov 2http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112640&date=2017-11-02
Data slam number 2 from grads in Cognitive Neuroscience/Neuroscience. Grad lounge afterwards for drinks and socializing.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112640&date=2017-11-02Longitudinal Dynamic Models for Examining the Development of Fluid Reasoning, Nov 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112951&date=2017-11-06
In this presentation I discuss structural equation modeling as a framework for examining developmental processes. First, I present some principles of longitudinal research that underlie both study designs and statistical models for longitudinal data. I then describe models that focus on mechanisms of within-person change, and demonstrate their use for examining developmental processes. I illustrate the use of these models with empirical data of fluid reasoning from childhood to adolescence. In a set of analyses, I investigate: a) the definition of a fluid reasoning factor using four measures taken at up to three time points, b) invariance in the fluid reasoning factor across the three measurement occasions, and c) the developmental changes in fluid reasoning from childhood to adolescence as well as the contribution of brain maturation to such changes.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112951&date=2017-11-06What kinds of models are most powerful for supporting science learning?: Models that integrate mechanism, Nov 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112998&date=2017-11-06
In science, models often serve as the bridge between empirical and theoretical, what was found and what is thought to be. Mathematical and computational transformations often play a central, but perhaps partially hidden, role in this bridge. These mathematical transformations can be approached in very transactional terms, necessary evils of little theoretical value to conceptual reasoning. Or the transformations can be approached in deeply theoretical terms, as central theoretical commitments about physical objects and mechanisms. I present data arguing for the strong benefits of the latter approach in helping high school biology students come to understand underlying phenomena and solve complex problems of genetic inheritance, which includes the productive and flexible use of situation models, process diagrams, and data representations.<br />
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About the speaker: Christian Schunn is a Senior Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center and a Professor of Psychology, Learning Sciences and Policy, and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh. Most recently he became Co-Director of the Institute for Learning, a service organization that supports instructional reform in large school districts around the US. His current research interests include STEM reasoning (particularly studying practicing scientists and engineers) and STEM learning (developing and studying integrations of science & engineering or science & math), neuroscience of complex learning (in science and math), peer interaction and instruction (especially for writing instruction), and engagement and learning (especially in science). He is a Fellow of several scientific societies (AAAS, APA, APS) as well as a Fellow and Executive member of the International Society for Design & Development in Education.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112998&date=2017-11-06The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children, Nov 8http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112390&date=2017-11-08
Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call "parenting" is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the multibillion dollar industry surrounding it have transformed child care into obsessive, controlling, and goal-oriented labor intended to create a particular kind of child and therefore a particular kind of adult. In this book, Professor of Psychology Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar 21st century picture of parents and children is wrong. Drawing on the study of human evolution and her own cutting-edge scientific research into how children learn, Gopnik shows how caring parents let children learn by creating a secure, loving environment.<br />
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After an introduction by John Campbell (Philosophy), Gopnik will speak briefly about her work and then open the floor for discussion.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112390&date=2017-11-08Experience Effects, Nov 8http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110251&date=2017-11-08
Ulrike Malmendier received her PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University in 2002, and her PhD in Law (summa cum laude) from the University of Bonn in 2000. She joined Berkeley in 2006 as an Assistant Professor, after having been at Stanford as Assistant Professor of Finance since 2002. She also is a research associate at NBER (Corporate Finance and Labor Economics) and a faculty research fellow at IZA, a CESifo affiliate, and a CEPR research affiliate. In 2015 Malmendier was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley's most prestigious honor for teaching.<br />
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In 2013, Malmendier received the Fisher Black Prize from the American Finance Association, given biennially to the top financial scholar under the age of 40. The award citation referred to Malmendier’s work in corporate finance, behavioral economics and finance, contract theory, and the history of the firm, particularly noting the originality and creativity of her research. Malmendier’s area of focus is the intersection of economics and finance, and why and how individuals make decisions—specifically how individuals make mistakes and systematically biased decisions. Some of her work includes research on CEO overconfidence, the long-term frugality of Depression “babies” and the decision-making behind gym membership.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110251&date=2017-11-08Developing Outreach Activities to Highlight Your Research, Nov 9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112284&date=2017-11-09
Why should science outreach be an essential component of research labs and scientist training? In this session, we focus on how to develop an outreach activity that incorporates the focal research of your lab group or program. What do you need to consider when developing activities and what resources are available to help you succeed? Panelists from campus lab groups will provide insights on best practices for engaging audiences and lessons learned from their experiences. Presenters include Professor David Whitney, Department of Psychology, and Traci Grzymala, Community Resources for Science.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112284&date=2017-11-09Preschoolers rationally use evidence to select causally relevant variables, Nov 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113191&date=2017-11-13
Young children are powerful causal learners: they readily track statistical contingencies between causes and effects, and they can use this evidence to infer general rules for a system (e.g., red blocks, but not blue blocks, will cause this machine to play music). However, little is known about the ways in which children 1.) transfer the causal rules they form in one context to produce new outcomes, and 2.) select relevant causal variables based on evidence. In this talk, I'll discuss new data that support preschoolers' ability to perform this kind of abstract transfer. I will also discuss ongoing investigations into the question of variable choice. I situate both of these topics within an "interventionist" philosophical framework for understanding causation, considering both causal intervention and causal explanation. Finally, I will explore the implications of this project for understanding open questions about the role of "placeholder structures" and variables in conceptual development.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113191&date=2017-11-13Beyond the First: Healing and Harmful Speech, Nov 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113155&date=2017-11-13
The next faculty forum in the free speech series grew out of our recent conversation on legal and political implications. We will now consider the impacts of speech on the mind, body, and soul. With this panel, we invite our faculty and the campus community to think beyond speech as a vehicle for communicating ideas. We will examine the power of speech and its impact on our psychological and physiological well being. Speech has the power to both harm and heal, and this panel will delve into how that impacts individuals and communities.<br />
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Faculty, staff, students, and alumni are welcome. There is no cost for admission; please bring campus or other picture ID to verify your affiliation. Doors will open at 3:30. Seating is limited. <br />
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For more information or to request accommodations, please call 888-UNIV-CAL or email events1@berkeley.edu.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113155&date=2017-11-13From Egosystem to Ecosystem, Nov 15http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110252&date=2017-11-15
I propose that in their social interactions, people may be energized by egosystem motivation in which they are preoccupied with proving their own worth and value to themselves and others, or by ecosystem motivation in which they strive to be constructive and supportive of people and things they care about beyond themselves. These two motivational systems, I suggest, are scaffolded onto evolved motivational systems for self-preservation and species-preservation, and have profound and sometimes paradoxical consequences for people’s own psychological experiences, health, and well-being, their relationships, and the people around them. I will describe my current thinking about these two motivational systems, and then present research on how egosystem and ecosystem motivation predict relationship processes and outcomes and psychological well-being for oneself and others across relationship types (strangers, roommates, friends, romantic relationships), in good times and bad.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110252&date=2017-11-15The Acquisition and the Consequences of Gender Stereotypes about Intellectual Ability, Nov 27http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113398&date=2017-11-27
Intellectual giftedness is culturally associated with men rather than women. I will describe a line of research that investigates the acquisition and the consequences of this “brilliance = men” stereotype. With respect to acquisition, I will present evidence that, by the age of 6, girls are already less likely than boys to believe that members of their gender are “really, really smart.” Next, I will document two consequences of this stereotype. First, the idea that brilliance is a male trait undermines girls’ and women’s interest in activities that are believed to require a high level of intellectual ability. Second, this stereotype gives rise to biases against girls and women in contexts where brilliance is seen as important. These findings speak to the early acquisition of cultural beliefs about brilliance and gender, and to the potential role of these stereotyped notions in creating and sustaining gender inequities in career outcomes.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113398&date=2017-11-27Grappling with goodness in infancy and childhood, Nov 29http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113399&date=2017-11-29
A fundamental question in cognitive science is how people weight and integrate competing considerations when deciding how to act. One of the most important everyday arenas of such conflict is the clash between moral considerations and self-interest––the familiar tension between wanting to do good and wanting to do well. In this talk, I will explore how children's judgments and memories reflect an integration of morality and self-interest. Together, these findings point to important cognitive and motivational processes that underlie how infants and children map the moral domain and highlight new directions for future research.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113399&date=2017-11-29Cognitive Neuroscience/Neurobiology Colloquium, Nov 30http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113529&date=2017-11-30
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113529&date=2017-11-30Book Talk Series: Another Kind of Madness, Nov 30http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112037&date=2017-11-30
Stephen Hinshaw, professor of Psychology (UC Berkeley) and Psychiatry (UC San Francisco) will discuss his newest book, "Another Kind of Madness", chronicling his father’s recurring mental illness and the doctor-enforced silence surrounding it, plus the crucial need to combat stigma. Books will be for sale, courtesy of Mrs. Dalloway's.<br />
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*The Library attempts to offer programs in accessible, barrier-free settings. If you think you may require disability-related accommodations, please contact the event sponsor, Susan Edwards (510-643-6224, seedwards@berkeley.edu), ideally at least two weeks prior to the event.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112037&date=2017-11-30The ontogeny of human ultra-sociality: Concern for social evaluation and social comparison, Dec 4http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113400&date=2017-12-04
Humans’ ultra-social lifeways are based on some species-unique social skills and motivations that develop mostly in early childhood. In this talk, I explore two of these: concern for social evaluation and social comparison. First is the way that young children come to self-regulate their actions not just individually, as do many species, but also socially, as they become concerned for how others are evaluating them (especially as cooperators) and adjust their behavior accordingly. Second is the way that young children become concerned not just with how they are treated in absolute terms (e.g., in the division of resources), but how they are treated relative to others. These two sets of social concerns play a critically important role in the way that humans become fully fledged members of a cultural group.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113400&date=2017-12-04Research on Policing, Dec 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110253&date=2017-12-06
Jack Glaser will describe the research he and his colleagues are conducting on racial bias in policing. This will include discussion of the relevant psychological research that helps to explain how racial discrimination occurs and analysis of policing data elucidating racial disparities. Glaser will discuss his efforts with the Center for Policing Equity to build the National Justice Database, including intensive policy reviews of multiple police departments. He will consider the wide latitude that police officers have in how they carry out their duties and the implications for reducing discretion for making policing more efficient and equitable.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=110253&date=2017-12-06Infants' Understanding and Evaluation of Shared Social Behavior, Dec 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113401&date=2017-12-06
Shared behaviors are woven throughout human social life. In the course of interaction, social partners mimic one another and align their actions to help or cooperate with one another. Over longer timescales, group members share social and communicative conventions and learn cultural skills from one another. What is the developmental pathway through which infants come to understand and engage in these types of shared behaviors? Are they independent of one another, or are there links in the cognitive or developmental processes through which they arise? I will present looking time studies demonstrating that infants' expectations and evaluations of multiple types of shared behavior (i.e. social imitation and group conventions) are integrated with their developing understanding of social groups and affiliation. I will also describe the development of a novel neuroimaging approach for disambiguating the roles of social value (e.g. social engagement and friendliness) and information value (e.g. novel and learnable patterns or behaviors) in guiding infants' social attention in different contexts, and then apply this approach to show that infants perceive social value in individuals who align themselves with others.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113401&date=2017-12-06Residential Segregation and its Effects on Intergroup Cognition, Dec 11http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113402&date=2017-12-11
In the U.S. today, racial segregation remains rampant in neighborhoods, schools, and even the workplace. Given the persistent inequity in terms of both race and social class in the U.S., my research utilizes perspectives from developmental, social, and cultural psychology to examine how features of our social and cultural contexts (e.g., racially segregated neighborhoods and classrooms) influence individuals’ thoughts and feelings about intergroup relations, and how these psychological outcomes in turn reify existing inequities. Presenting data from 5 experiments, in this talk, I will examine how racial segregation shapes both adults’ and children’s perceptions of others’ racial attitudes, and how these perceptions, in turn, allow segregation to persist. By bringing to light this bi-directional process, we can better understand why change is more difficult and slow than expected.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113402&date=2017-12-11Aversion to Emotional Insurance, Jan 17http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113959&date=2018-01-17
We examine whether people reduce the impact of negative outcomes through emotional hedging—betting against the occurrence of desired outcomes. We find substantial reluctance to bet against the success of preferred U.S. presidential candidates and Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball, and NCAA hockey teams. This reluctance is not attributable to optimism or a general aversion to hedging. Reluctance to hedge desired outcomes stems from identity signaling, a desire to preserve an important aspect of the bettor’s identity. Reluctance to hedge occurrs when the diagnostic cost of the negative self-signal that hedging would produce outweighs the pecuniary rewards associated with hedging. Participants readily accept hedges and pure gambles with no diagnostic costs. They also more readily accept hedges with diagnostic costs when the pecuniary rewards associated with those hedges are greater. Reluctance to hedge identity-relevant outcomes produces two anomalies in decision making, risk seeking and dominance violations. More than 45% of NCAA fans in two of our studies, for instance, turn down a “free” real $5 bet against their team. The results elucidate anomalous decisions in which people exhibit disloyalty aversion, forgoing personal rewards that would conflict with their loyalties and commitments to others, beliefs, and ideals.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113959&date=2018-01-17Gender and Race Gatekeeping, Jan 24http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113429&date=2018-01-24
In this talk, Mikki will discuss the role of gatekeepers in preventing indviduals, often women and members of underrepresented groups, from attaining their potential. Mikki will review some of her programmatic research on subtle discrimination and will then provide some of her most recent studies and data on gender and race gatekeeping.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113429&date=2018-01-24“Uncovering Perceptual Priors Using Automated Serial Reproduction Chains”, Jan 26http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114804&date=2018-01-26
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114804&date=2018-01-26I see you: Social gaze as a window of opportunity in early brain development, Jan 29http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114785&date=2018-01-29
Social bonding—including the social learning that underpins the creation of early emotional ties between infants and their caretakers—are among the most fundamental developmental processes for human survival and well-being. Social attention is thought to play a crucial role in these processes, but little is known about the neurodevelopmental mechanisms—particularly regarding the involvement of brainstem networks in social attention and arousal. <br />
This seminar will introduce a model exploring the role of early maturing brainstem pathways in gating social attention. Using a prospective decade-long longitudinal study utilizing electrophysiological and gaze tracking measures, social attention findings will be presented from typically developing infants and children at risk for attention deficits and autism. These findings underscore the role of sub-cortical inputs to the evolving social-neural network in ways that may contribute to our understanding of the development of social behavior and social bonding. The implications for early diagnosis of social developmental risk and the prevention of mother-infant bonding difficulties will be discussed. In addition, some work-in-progress on individually tailored gaze-contingent interventions will be described.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114785&date=2018-01-29Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, Jan 30http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114724&date=2018-01-30
How do we know where things are? Recent results indicate that an object’s visual location is constructed at a high level where, critically, an object’s motion is discounted to recover its current location, much like we discount the illumination when we perceive color. As a result we sometimes see a target far from its actual location. These predictions operate differently for eye movements, however, and stimuli that can be seen far from their actual location nevertheless drive saccades to their physical position with far less influence from the motion-induced position shift. This dissociation establishes two distinct representations of spatial coordinates, supported by imaging results, and we ask whether spatial attention directs resources to the perceived location of an attended target or to its physical location, where a saccade would land. Using illusory line motion as a probe for the location of attention, we find that attention is based in saccade not perceptual coordinates.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114724&date=2018-01-30Clinical Science Colloquium, Jan 30http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114514&date=2018-01-30
In this talk Maria will present an overview of the clinical treatment (individual and group CBT and Motivational Interviewing) and long-term management (Peer Support and Harm Reduction) of Hoarding Disorders. The focus will be on adapting your evidence-based “tool kit” and treatment goals, to work with these often complex and highly comorbid clients, in real life settings.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114514&date=2018-01-30Sensory Integration, Density Estimation, and Information Retention, Jan 31http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114600&date=2018-01-31
A common task facing computational scientists and, arguably, the brains of primates more generally is to construct models for data, particularly ones that invoke latent variables. Although it is often natural to identify the latent variables of such a model with the true unobserved variables in the world, the correspondence between the two can be more complicated, as when the former are instantiated by the firing rates of neurons in the cortex, and the latter are (e.g.) locations of objects in 2D space. Nevertheless, a simple desideratum for the model's latent variables can be formulated in any case: that inference to them from the observations throw away no information about the true latent variables. It may then be surprising to learn that two models that explain the data equally well--indeed, as well as possible--can differ under this criterion.<br />
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In statistics, the task of learning a model for data can be formalized as density estimation. We propose and prove sufficient conditions for latent-variable density estimation that guarantees satisfaction of the criterion just proposed--"information retention," for short; show the connection of this criterion to results on multisensory integration in neuroscience and psychology; and use it to derive a recurrent version of a density estimator, the restricted Boltzmann machine, that we call the "recurrent exponential-family harmonium."<br />
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This work was done in collaboration with M.R. Fellows, B.K. Dichter, and P.N. Sabes (supervisor) at UCSF.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114600&date=2018-01-31Strangers in Their Own Land, Jan 31http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113960&date=2018-01-31
Arlie Hochschild's latest book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (The New Press, September 2016) focuses on the rise of the American right. Based on intensive interviews of Tea Party enthusiasts in Louisiana, conducted over the last five years and focusing on emotions, Hochschild scales an “empathy wall” to learn how to see, think and feel as they do. What do members of the Tea Party want to feel about the nation and its leaders? Hochschild argues that beneath the right-wing hostility to almost all government intervention lies an anguishing loss of honor, alienation and engagement in a hidden social class war.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113960&date=2018-01-31“Why The Mind Evolved: The Evolution Of Navigation”, Feb 2http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114805&date=2018-02-02
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114805&date=2018-02-02How adolescents navigate uncertainty, with a little help from their friends, Feb 5http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115080&date=2018-02-05
Despite the increased prevalence of adolescent risk-taking behavior in the real world, laboratory evidence of adolescent specific risk taking propensity remains scarce. In contrast with the lab, adolescents in the real world often have only incomplete information about risks. There is currently very little known about how adolescents make decisions under these uncertain conditions. To address this issue, we studied how adolescents search for information before make decisions. In a large behavioral study (N=105,ages 8-22) we found adolescents searched for less information before making a decision, were less averse of uncertainty, and made more risky decisions. In a follow up fMRI study, comparing adults (N=25, ages 18-25) and adolescents (N=30, ages 11-15), we used a Bayesian model to track the processes involved in learning probabilities and decision-making. Again, we found that adolescents were less skilled in learning probabilities and were more risk-seeking compared to adults. In addition, we find that adolescents reported level of confidence is less well calibrated to level of uncertainty associated with the stimuli. Finally, our results suggest that adults, but not adolescents, consistently take estimation uncertainty into account when making choices. This was supported our finding that the VMPFC is encoding the uncertainty in adults but not for the adolescents. Finally, I will present novel behavioral studies on how adolescents use social information to reduce uncertainty and guide their choices in uncertain environments.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115080&date=2018-02-05Cognitive Adaptations to Harsh Environments, Feb 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114847&date=2018-02-06
Growing up in a harsh environment has a major impact on cognition. People from such environments tend to score lower on a variety of cognitive tests. The predominant view in psychology is, therefore, that chronic exposure to harsh conditions impairs cognition. I have recently challenged this consensus by proposing that harsh environments do not exclusively impair cognition. Rather, people also developmentally adapt, or ‘specialize,’ their minds for solving problems relevant in such conditions. These problems might require different skills and abilities from those assessed on conventional tests. This hypothesis predicts harsh-adapted people may show enhanced performance on tasks that match recurrent problems in their environments, compared with safe-adapted people. In this talk, I will present results of a preregistered study examining whether exposure to, and involvement in, violence enhances people’s (N=126) learning and memory for danger, but not for location, information. The better we understand harsh-adapted minds—including their strengths—the more effective we can tailor education, policy, and interventions to fit their needs and potentials.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114847&date=2018-02-06Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, Feb 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114135&date=2018-02-06
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114135&date=2018-02-06Racial and political dynamics of an approaching majority-minority United States, Feb 7http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115179&date=2018-02-07
Ongoing and projected demographic shifts in the racial composition of the United States have been heralded as necessitating, if not promoting, positive change in the racial dynamics of the nation. Although change in response to this growing diversity is likely, its direction and scope are less clear. In this talk, I will present emerging social-scientific research on the psychological, social, and political implications of making projected changes in the racial/ethnic demographics of the United States salient. Specifically, I will review recent empirical research examining how exposure to information that the United States is becoming a ³majority-minority² nation affects racial attitudes and several political outcomes (e.g., ideology, policy preferences), and the psychological mechanisms that give rise to them, focusing primarily on the reactions of members of the current dominant racial group (i.e., White Americans).<br />
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Implications of these findings for the maintenance of a multi-ethnic/racial democracy will be discussed.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115179&date=2018-02-07Summer Opportunities Fair, Feb 8http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112394&date=2018-02-08
Wondering what to do next summer? Visit the Summer Opportunities Fair to learn about exciting summer options for UC Berkeley students, including summer courses, study abroad, student jobs and internships, research, volunteer and service, and more.<br />
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Representatives from Berkeley campus units will be tabling with information on their courses and programs.<br />
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Exhibitors at the fair:<br />
African American Studies <br />
American Studies<br />
Anthropology<br />
Berkeley Charter of Professional Accountancy (BCPA)<br />
Berkeley International Office<br />
Cal Housing - Summer Housing<br />
CalTeach STEM Education and Beyond<br />
Career Center<br />
Center for African Studies<br />
Center for Portuguese Studies / IES<br />
Classics<br />
Comparative Literature<br />
Department of Sociology Study Abroad<br />
Digital Humanities Summer Minor<br />
Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP)<br />
Early Development & Learning Science (through Psychology)<br />
Earth and Planetary Science<br />
Energy and Resources Group<br />
Ethnic Studies<br />
Financial Aid and Scholarships Office<br />
French<br />
Gender and Women's Studies<br />
Global Poverty & Practice Minor<br />
Haas Undergraduate Business Program<br />
History Department Summer Session <br />
History of Art<br />
Institute for South Asia Studies<br />
Integrative Biology<br />
Italian Studies, Scandinavian, Slavic, Celtic Studies<br />
Journalism in the Digital Age<br />
Media Studies & Creative Writing<br />
Molecular and Cell Biology<br />
Music<br />
Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarships <br />
Political Science<br />
Pre-College TRIO Program<br />
Psychology<br />
Rhetoric and Film & Media<br />
School of Public Health<br />
Social Welfare<br />
Summer Forestry Field Program<br />
The English Department<br />
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies<br />
University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP)http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=112394&date=2018-02-08“Exploring Curiosity in Human and Reinforcement Learning agents”, Feb 9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115493&date=2018-02-09
Even in absence of external rewards, babies and scientists explore the world around them. For this reason, curiosity has long been recognized as a hallmark of human exploration and the essence of science. Despite its importance, we lack even the most basic understanding of the basis, mechanisms, and purpose of curiosity. In this talk, I will provide a brief overview of some of my projects which aim at understanding and influencing human curiosity. I will then talk about a new research project which aims at investigating how prior knowledge guides human exploration and how artificial agents can benefit from those findings.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115493&date=2018-02-09Neural Mechanisms of the Development of Face Perception, Feb 12http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115244&date=2018-02-12
How do brain mechanisms develop from childhood to adulthood? There is extensive debate if brain development is due to pruning of excess neurons, synapses, and connections, leading to reduction of responses to irrelevant stimuli, or if development is associated with growth of dendritic arbors, synapses, and myelination leading to increased responses and selectivity to relevant stimuli. Our research addresses this central debate using cutting edge multimodal imaging, obtaining multiple measurements of brain function using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and brain anatomy using quantitative MRI (qMRI) and diffusion MRI (dMRI) in children (ages 5-12) and adults (ages 22-28). We use the face recognition system as a model system to study brain development as it is a well understood cortical system that shows particularly protracted development throughout childhood and adolescence, into adulthood.<br />
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Both anatomical and functional measurements provide compelling empirical evidence supporting the growth hypothesis. Anatomically, we find age-related increases in macromolecular tissue volume in face-selective regions, which we validate in histological slices of postmortem brains. Critically, this tissue development is correlated with specific increases in functional selectivity to faces, as well as improvements in face recognition. Functionally, results reveal (1) age-related increases in responsiveness to faces rather than decreased responses to nonfaces, (2) age-related increases in neural sensitivity to face identity, which are correlated with better perceptual discriminability of faces, and (3) age-related increases in the visual field coverage and foveal bias by receptive fields tiling face-selective regions. Together our data propose a new model by which emergent brain function and behavior during childhood result from cortical tissue growth and increases in responses and selectivity to relevant stimuli rather than from pruning and decreases in responses to irrelevant stimuli.<br />
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This research has been done together with Jesse Gomez, Vaidehi Natu, Kevin Weiner, Michael Barnett, and Brianna Jeskahttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115244&date=2018-02-12Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, Feb 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114725&date=2018-02-13
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114725&date=2018-02-1345 years of studying stress, social relationships and health, Feb 14http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113961&date=2018-02-14
This talk is a summary of Dr. Cohen’s research over the last 45 years. It is organized by “pivots” – experiences that altered the direction of his work. Work he will discuss includes studies of the effects of environmental noise (traffic and aircraft) on cognition, affect and physiology of elementary school children; of the role of social ties, social supports, and social conflicts in physical health; of the roles of stress and social support in smoking cessation; of psychological factors in immunity and host resistance to infectious disease; of the conceptualization and measurement of psychological stress; and of socioeconomic status and health, particularly childhood SES as a predictor of adult health.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113961&date=2018-02-14Representing Linguistic Knowledge With Probabilistic Models, Feb 16http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115494&date=2018-02-16
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115494&date=2018-02-16Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, Feb 20http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114139&date=2018-02-20
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114139&date=2018-02-20Clinical Science Colloquium, Feb 20http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115313&date=2018-02-20
Inhibitory learning and regulation during exposure therapy: from basic science to clinical applicationhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115313&date=2018-02-20Clinical Science Colloquium, Feb 20http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115443&date=2018-02-20
The therapeutic strategy of repeated exposure is effective for fears and anxiety disorders, but a substantial number of individuals fail to respond. Translation from the basic science of inhibitory extinction learning and inhibitory regulation offers strategies for increasing response rates to exposure therapy. The underlying theories and evidence for these strategies will be presented, including prediction error correction (‘violation of expectancy’), variability across stimuli and contexts to enhance generalization, interference with hippocampal activation to enhance context generalization, bridging techniques to retrieve exposure memories in novel contexts, induction of positive valence, and linguistic processing (‘affect labeling’) of feared stimuli.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115443&date=2018-02-20Preschoolers Rationally Use Evidence To Select Causally Relevant Variables., Feb 23http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114807&date=2018-02-23
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114807&date=2018-02-23“A Rational Account of Inaccurate Self-Assessment”, Feb 23http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114884&date=2018-02-23
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114884&date=2018-02-23The Role of Attachment in Perceived Relationships with Deities, Feb 26http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115512&date=2018-02-26
Religious believers’ perceived relationships with deities likely promote the pervasiveness of theistic religions, especially if these relationships engender or promise attachment-related “felt security”. Specific expectations and behavior within these perceived relationships might be derived from individual differences in implicit, internal working models or states of mind regarding attachment that are based on relationships with caretakers. As part of an investigation of these hypotheses, I will report findings from the inaugural use a semi-structured Religious Attachment Interview (RAI), modeled on the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), but adapted for attachment to a non-corporeal deity within religious life. I will also compare the RAI findings with the participant's states of mind with respect to attachment, as measured with the AAI.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115512&date=2018-02-26Attachment, Religion, and Spirituality: A Wider View, Feb 26http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115513&date=2018-02-26
I will outline a book on the attachment-religion connection that I am currently composing as a visiting scholar. The book has been contracted with Guilford and has Dist. Prof. Em. Phillip R. Shaver from UC Davis as editor. I will focus the talk on four reasons for choosing “A Wider View” as subtitle. First, I argue that Bowlby restricted attachment theory unnecessarily by insisting that protection (via physical proximity) has been the sole adaptive function of attachment. Though he did so for good reasons then, time is ripe to consider cultural/social learning – and cultural evolution more generally – as an additional functional consequence of attachment. Second, rather than viewing aspects of religion and spirituality simply as “natural” output of evolved mechanisms (e.g., the attachment system) I will consider how attachment – and attachment security in particular – serves to facilitate the cultural transmission of religion and spirituality. Third, I will argue that “attachments” should no longer be approached as content-based, essentialist categories but rather as functional categories with fuzzy boundaries. Viewed this way, “attachment to God” qualifies as a “symbolic” member of that category. Fourth and finally, beyond organized theistic religion, I will consider the role of attachment in altered spiritual states, non-theistic religions, and matters of “secularism”.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115513&date=2018-02-26Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, Feb 27http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114140&date=2018-02-27
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114140&date=2018-02-27Clinical Science Colloquium, Feb 27http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115627&date=2018-02-27
"By expanding Medicaid, a very large safety net health insurance program, and by including mental health and substance abuse coverage as essential benefits that must be covered at "parity" with other conditions, the Affordable Care Act greatly increased behavioral health treatment possibilities for African Americans and other low income populations. However, despite strong financial incentives to accept Medicaid expansion, about one third of states rejected it. African Americans are notably overrepresented in states rejecting Medicaid expansion, and there are theoretical and empirical reasons to believe that residents' and policy makers' explicit and implicit bias played some role in this rejection. We can rigorously investigate how psychologist's theories of bias, In conjunction with sociologist's theories of "undeserving poor" and political scientist's theories of race-based politics and voting, lead to less behavioral health treatment access for African Americans and to increasing African American vs White disparities."http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115627&date=2018-02-27Department of Psychology Colloquium - Reflections on Psychology in Tolman Hall: Departmental Divide, Diversity, and Faculty Celebrations, Feb 28http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115735&date=2018-02-28
We continue with Part 2 of the "History of the Psychology Department" series, focusing on the early years in Tolman Hall (1962-1979). Among the themes to be discussed are the initial dedication of Tolman Hall, the Department's reunification, the initial diversification of the Department to include women and minority faculty, and a review of several key figures. On the eve of our move to Berkeley Way West, you won't want to miss this illuminating presentation!http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115735&date=2018-02-28Determinants and Consequences of the Need for Explanation, Mar 2http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115496&date=2018-03-02
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115496&date=2018-03-02Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, Mar 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114141&date=2018-03-06
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114141&date=2018-03-06Clinical Science Colloquium, Mar 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=116033&date=2018-03-06
Healing the Mind: Writing Takes the Ache Away<br />
The talk will focus on mania and its ancient origins; on the similarities between the psychological effects of mania and war; and the power of words (and the limits of words) in healing the mind recovering from mania. Most particularly, the talk will center on the American poet Robert Lowell and the importance of writing in healing his mind during the wake of repeated attacks of psychotic mania.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=116033&date=2018-03-06Excess Baggage, Mar 7http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113962&date=2018-03-07
There are pervasive and persistent disparities in the health of Nonhispanic White Americans and most racial ethnic/minorities; the greatest of these are between Black and White Americans. There are multiple, complex reasons for this but disparities in the quality of healthcare received by Black and by White patients is one well-documented cause. One important aspect of healthcare disparities occurs in clinical interactions. Relative to White patients, clinical interactions between Black patients and nonblack physicians are substantially less productive and have poorer outcomes. This talk will present research on the impact of implicit and explicit race-related beliefs and attitudes among physicians and patients on the process and outcomes of racially discordant clinical interactions. This research shows that the race-related attitudes nonblack physicians bring to their interactions with Black patients affect their own behavior and that Black patients rather easily perceive and then react to these subtle behaviors. Moreover, Black patients do more than simply react to their physicians; their own race-related attitudes and beliefs play a critical role in the dynamics of racially discordant clinical interactions. The implications of these findings for our understanding of both the sources of healthcare disparities and our understanding of the role of implicit processes in social interactions will be discussed.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113962&date=2018-03-07“Leveraging Deep Neural Networks To Study Human Cognition”, Mar 9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115497&date=2018-03-09
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115497&date=2018-03-09Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture: The Power and Value of Minority Opinion, Mar 9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=116177&date=2018-03-09
This talk will deal with a career long investigation of the power of minority opinions, which initially focused on how they “persuade” and subsequently on their value in stimulating thought. Witnessing dissent, our thinking becomes more open and less biased, the kind of thinking that leads to better decisions and more creative solutions.<br />
This research, conducted over 40 years, underscores two themes: the “perils of consensus” and the “value of dissent” for their effect on the way we think about an issue. This talk coincides with the release of her new book on this topic “In defense of troublemakers...”<br />
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“Charlan Nemeth has written the definitive account of dissent and how it affects thinking. This remarkably insightful, grounded, and accessible treatment could not be more important or timely.”<br />
—Karl E. Weick, coauthor of Managing the Unexpectedhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=116177&date=2018-03-09Comparative Neurobiology of Social Bonds - from Rodents to Primates to Humans, Mar 12http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115699&date=2018-03-12
Social bonds are critical to human health and well-being. However, most of what we know regarding the neurobiology of strong, selective social bonds ("pair-bonds") comes from a socially monogamous rodent, the prairie vole. In my laboratory, we also study a socially monogamous primate, the titi monkey, as a model for the neurobiology of pair bond formation and maintenance. We have characterized the central oxytocin and vasopressin receptors in titi monkeys, as well as in both neurotypical humans and persons with autism. Using these data, pharmacological manipulations of oxytocin, vasopressin, opioids, dopamine, and serotonin, and functional imaging data in titi monkeys, we have attempted to build a testable model of the similarities and differences between rodent and primate pair bonding.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115699&date=2018-03-12The Persistence of Gender Inequality from Interpersonal and Intergroup Perspectives, Mar 14http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113963&date=2018-03-14
Laura Kray is the Warren E. & Carol Spieker Professor of Leadership at Berkeley-Haas and a current Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Her research examines negotiations as a mechanism for sustaining gender inequality in society. Her work on gender stereotypes illustrates the interpersonal processes determining how resources are allocated in economic transactions between men and women. Her research on implicit theories illustrates the role of motivated social cognition in preserving the gender status quo. In this talk, she will weigh evidence in support of a popular explanation for women’s lesser outcomes in pay and career advancement—the belief that women are poor advocates for themselves. Applying a critical lens to 20 years of research on gender in negotiations, she debunks the myth that “women don’t ask" and offers an alternate account for the persistence of gender inequality arising from an intergroup perspective. Finally, she will offer insights about how to reduce system-justifying attitudes that rationalize gender inequality as fair and just.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113963&date=2018-03-14The Impact of Mental State Inferences for Legal Outcomes, Mar 16http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115498&date=2018-03-16
Ph.D. Exit Talkhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115498&date=2018-03-16Misery and Pleasure in the Origins of the Study of Happiness, Mar 16http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113964&date=2018-03-16
In December 2017, Oxford University Press published 'Happier? The History of a Cultural Movement That Aspired to Transform America' by Daniel Horowitz, an emeritus professor from Smith College. Focusing on the period from 1940 to 1970, this talk will cover some of the origins of the study of happiness and then go on to suggest some of the key aspects that shaped the field in the last half century.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113964&date=2018-03-16Developmental Psychology Colloquium, Mar 19http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=116362&date=2018-03-19
Yuan Meng : Children’s Causal Interventions Combine Discrimination and Confirmation<br />
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Like scientists, children can design "experiments" to distinguish between causal structures, but their performance often falls short of information-theoretic metrics such as the expected information gain (EIG). Such deviation may have resulted from mixing normative discriminatory strategies such as maximizing EIG with confirmatory strategies such as the positive test strategy (PTS). In one experiment, 39 5- to 7-year-olds intervened on a three-node causal system to identify its correct structure from two possibilities. Their intervention choices were better fit by a model that considered both EIG and PTS compared to alternative models that only considered a single strategy or selected interventions at random. The findings suggest that children’s causal intervention strategy may be a combination of discrimination and confirmation. In ongoing and future work, I am looking at whether the weight of EIG may change as result of different prompts (explain vs. report intervention choices) or the nature of the effects (positive vs. negative).<br />
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Ruthe Foushee: Learning to Learn in Language Development<br />
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While there has been much research focused on what counts as effective input in language development, fewer studies focus on the role of the learner herself in filtering the language input she is exposed to and in adapting to her environment. I will discuss two studies, one planned and one ongoing, that explore how children direct their attention to and make use of the language around them. One study asks whether children discriminate different levels of linguistic complexity, and select the appropriate level for their own learning, and the other investigates how classroom socialization might influence children's learning from overheard language.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=116362&date=2018-03-19Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, Mar 20http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114143&date=2018-03-20
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114143&date=2018-03-20What can science explain? Folk epistemic judgments in adults, Mar 23http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115945&date=2018-03-23
Ph.D Exit Talkhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115945&date=2018-03-23The Science and Practice of Resilience, Mar 30http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114627&date=2018-03-30
Mental resources like determination, self-worth, and kindness are what make us resilient: able to cope with adversity and push through challenges in the pursuit of opportunities. While resilience helps us recover from loss and trauma, it offers much more than that. True resilience fosters well-being, an underlying sense of happiness, love, and peace. Remarkably, as you internalize experiences of wellbeing, that builds inner strengths which in turn make you more resilient. Wellbeing and resilience promote each other in an upward spiral.<br />
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The key to developing lasting resilience is knowing how to turn passing experiences into lasting inner resources built into your brain. This is what neuropsychologist Rick Hanson calls positive neuroplasticity.<br />
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At this full-day workshop, Hanson will outline his unique, step-by-step program for growing the inner strengths of true resilience and hardwiring them into the brain. <br />
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You will learn that:<br />
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*Resilience is for every day of your life, not just for surviving the worst day of your life. <br />
*Resilience comes from having inner strengths such as grit, motivation, and compassion.<br />
*Resilience is not static - you either have it or you don’t - but in fact something you can develop. <br />
*Resilience fosters well-being and well-being fosters resilience, in a wonderful upward spiral.<br />
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6 CEs available!http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114627&date=2018-03-30Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms linking Early Adversity with Adolescent Psychopathology, Apr 2http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=116324&date=2018-04-02
Children who have experienced environmental adversity—such as abuse, neglect, or poverty—are at markedly elevated risk for developing psychopathology. What is less clear is how and why adverse early experiences exert such a profound influence on mental health. Identifying developmental processes that are disrupted by adverse early environments is the key to developing better intervention strategies for children who have experienced adversity. Yet, much existing research relies on a cumulative risk approach that is unlikely to reveal these mechanisms. This approach implicitly assumes that very different environmental experiences influence development through the same underlying mechanisms. In this talk, I advance an alternative model and examine its utility in identifying mechanisms linking adversity with adolescent psychopathology. This novel approach conceptualizes adversity along distinct dimensions, emphasizes the central role of learning mechanisms and the neural circuitry that supports these mechanisms, and distinguishes between different forms of adversity that might influence learning and neural development in distinct ways. A key advantage of this approach is that learning mechanisms provide clear targets for interventions aimed at preventing psychopathology in children who have experienced adversity.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=116324&date=2018-04-02“It’s the skin you’re in”, Apr 4http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113965&date=2018-04-04
This talk will explore the concept of race and discuss how ontological conceptions of race impact the questions we ask, the nature of our scientific investigations, and the conclusions we draw from scientific evidence. I will discuss racism as a determinant of health and the need for conceptual rigor for advancing the study of race, racism and embodiment in social epidemiology. Drawing on recent findings from the African American Women’s Heart & Health Study, the talk will demonstrate the use of mixed methods research and intersectional framing to examine how racism gets into the body to impact health.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=113965&date=2018-04-04In Defense of troublemakers: A conversation with Charlan Nemeth", Apr 4http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=116360&date=2018-04-04
An interview of Charlan Nemeth on her new book "In defense of troublemakers: the power of dissent in life and business" on the "perils of consensus" and the "power of dissent"http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=116360&date=2018-04-04“Resource-Rational Attention Allocation”, Apr 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115499&date=2018-04-06
One of two 30 min research talks by graduate students.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115499&date=2018-04-06Learning High-Level Actions By Minimizing Algorithmic Complexity, Apr 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115500&date=2018-04-06
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115500&date=2018-04-06Resource-Rational Attention Allocation, Apr 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115946&date=2018-04-06
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115946&date=2018-04-06Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, Apr 10http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114726&date=2018-04-10
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114726&date=2018-04-10In Defense of troublemakers, Apr 12http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=116361&date=2018-04-12
A lecture and interview of Charlan Nemeth on her new book "In defense of troublemakers: the power of dissent in life and business" hosted by Kris Welchhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=116361&date=2018-04-12“Searching For Scents: Human And Dog Behavior During Odor Navigation”, Apr 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115501&date=2018-04-13
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115501&date=2018-04-13Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, Apr 17http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114146&date=2018-04-17
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114146&date=2018-04-17“Psychology In The Internet Age: Leveraging Big Data To Evaluate Models Of Cognition”, Apr 20http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115502&date=2018-04-20
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115502&date=2018-04-20Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, Apr 24http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114145&date=2018-04-24
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=114145&date=2018-04-24Lecture by Jason Okonofua, Assistant Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley, Apr 25http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115691&date=2018-04-25
Lecture by Jason Okonofua, Assistant Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley<br />
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More information about this talk to be announced. <br />
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Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeleyhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115691&date=2018-04-25Competence, Performance, and Norms for Religious Credence, Apr 27http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/Psych.html?event_ID=115503&date=2018-04-27
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